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History 261

Greece in the Golden Age

Instructor:

Rosalind Hays
 
History 261: Greece in the Golden Age
Fall 1998 10:30 MWF
Rosalind Hays

Office: 309 Lewis
Office hours:

Office phone: (708)-524—6836   Home phone: (708)—386—7141
Email: haysrosc@email.dom.edu
 Course Goals

Each student should take from this course:
 
 

  • An understanding of ways in which ancient Greek society was organized, changed, and developed , c. 750—300 BCE. The course will examine the interaction of social structure, politics, economics, culture, and intellectual and artistic life in classical Greece.
  • An acquaintance with some of the sources of classical Greek history and how historians have used those sources to interpret classical history.
  • An understanding of some of the kinds of questions historians ask about the past and the ways in which they use evidence and interpretation.
  • An acquaintance with the geography of ancient Greece and with the vocabulary of its history.
  • A deeper acquaintance with a topic of the student’s choice as developed in the independent paper(s).
    • Books in the Bookstore
  • Aristophanes. The Archarnians, the Clouds, Lysistrata. Trans. Alan H. Sommerstein. New York: Penguin, 1973.
  • Davies, J. K. Democracy in Classical Greece. 2d ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.
  • Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War: The Crawley Translation. Revised by T. E. Wick. New York: Modern Library, 1982.
  • Wilcken, Ulrich. Alexander the Great. Norton.
    • (Other readings will include handouts and reserve readings.)
    Calendar
      
    W Sept 2 Introduction
    F Sept 4 Davies, chap 1; handouts (Homer and Hesiod); Thucydides 1--14
    M Sept 7 Labor Day—No class
    W Sept 9 Economic change and stasis; tyranny; Sparta
    F Sept 11 Sparta: handout (Xenophon)
    M Sept 14 Athenian evolution to Cleisthenes: handout (Starr)
    W Sept 16 Athenian evolution through Ephialtes
    F Sept 18 Demonstration: Web resources, ancient Greece
    MAKE AN APPOINTMENT TO TALK ABOUT A PAPER TOPIC(S)
    M Sept 21 The fifth century BCE: Davies, chaps 2--3
    W Sept 23 Marathon, Salamis, Plataea and aftermath; handout (Herodotus)
    F Sept 25 Athenian empire Davies, chaps 4—5; Thucydides, pp 51—64
    Map quiz
    M Sept 28 The composition of empire. Pericles’ view and that of the "old oligarch"
    (Thucydides, pp 106—114; handout)
    W Sept 30 The fifth century empire, cont. PROPOSALS DUE 
    F Oct 2 Athenian society—Davies’ view—Davies, chap 6
    M Oct 5 Greek society from other angles: women and slaves handout (Fantham, et al)
    W Oct 7 The perspective of tragedy—an assigned tragedy
    F Oct 9 Drama and religion
    M Oct 12 Religion and philosophy in the fifth century
    W Oct 14 MIDTERM
    F Oct 16 Long Weekend—no class
     
    M Oct 19—F Nov 6 The Peloponnesian war—assignments in Thucydides, Aristophanes, and Davies, chap 6: Separate sheet of assignments.
    M Nov 9—F Nov 13 the fourth century: Davies, chaps 8—10; handout (Cohen)
    DRAFT OF ONE PAPER DUE, Mon, Nov 9 Students taking course for four hours.
    M Nov 16—F Nov 20 the fourth century, cont. Davies chaps 11—13
    DRAFT OF ALL PAPERS DUE FRIDAY, Nov 20
    M Nov 23—W Nov 25 Macedonia; Alexander’s youth Wilcken, Part 1
    ONE PAPER DUE WED NOV 25—STUDENTS TAKING COURSE FOR FOUR CREDITS
    M Nov 30—M Dec 7 From Hellas to the Hellenistic world Wilcken
    ALL PAPERS DUE MONDAY DEC 7
    W DEC 9—F DEC 11 Review
     
    FINAL EXAM SCHEDULED BY REGISTRAR DURING THE EXAMINATION PERIOD
    Course Requirements
    Proposals and papers must be typed or word-processed and should give proper credit to the sources in which you found information or which you quote. (Generally, it is best to indicate a source for every piece of information. Parenthetical notes, a la MLA, the HarBrace Handbook, or Turabian’ s stylesheets are preferred.

    There will be separate handouts on

    the journal
    the proposal
    the paper(s)
     
    This syllabus is to be used for reference purposes only; consult your instructor for any changes or updates!
    Last updated on the Web: December 1, 1998